Reports Developed By Cabinet Leaders to Lead to Recommendations and Actions On Anti-Semitism Within Higher Education
Overview
Today, President Trump issues a new Executive Order entitled, “Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism (www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/additional-measures-to-combat-anti-semitism/).” The EO references a prior declaration (E.O. 13899) President Trump made during his first term in office on December 11, 2019, in which he found that “students, in particular, faced anti-Semitic harassment in schools and on university and college campuses.” And, then the new E.O. goes on to state that due to nullification of the previous order by the Biden-Harris Administration that the President wishes to “reaffirm E.O. 13899 and directs additional measures to advance the policy thereof in the wake of the Hamas terrorist attacks of October 7, 2023, against the people of Israel.”
The new E.O. continues:
“These attacks unleashed an unprecedented wave of vile anti-Semitic discrimination, vandalism, and violence against our citizens, especially in our schools and on our campuses. Jewish students have faced an unrelenting barrage of discrimination; denial of access to campus common areas and facilities, including libraries and classrooms; and intimidation, harassment, and physical threats and assault. A joint report by the House Committees on Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Judiciary, Oversight and Accountability, Veterans’ Affairs, and Ways and Means calls the Federal Government’s failure to fight anti-Semitism and protect Jewish students “astounding.” This failure is unacceptable and ends today.”
The declaration therefor states the establishment of new policy to combat ani-Semitism to “vigorously, using all available and appropriate legal tools, to prosecute, remove, or otherwise hold to account the perpetrators of unlawful anti-Semitic harassment and violence.”
What’s Next
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